Fedora and Creative Commons release Creative CD
The Fedora project has joined forces with Creative Commons. The results are a live CD with Fedora 7 and free software, along with various music, sound and image documents under the CC license.
The CDs will be distributed for the first time August 6 through 9 at Linux World in San Francisco. An ISO image of the CD is available for users to burn their own copy. The joint project has been dubbed Live Content to reflect the underlying idea of the user being able to modify the content. In fact, users are actively encouraged to use and modify the Fedora distribution and the works on the CD.
Fedora 7 has launched a new Open Source development process that supports the creation of individual distributions and appliances. It boots from the Live Content CD and uses Open Source tools such as Revisor and Pungi, which are included with the latest Fedora distribution. The CD gives users a selection of content released under the free Creative Commons licenses including audio, video, image, text and educational materials. The free software includes Open Office, Firefox, the Gimp image manipulation package, the Inkspace vector graphics tool, the Totem sound and video player, the Gthumb image viewer, and the Evince PDF viewer. The project in the form of a wiki is a subdomain of Creativecommons.org. Users can monitor the progress of development by visiting the site.
Similar projects have existed in the past: the Frama also includes a Live boot system and free software, along with tutorials, videos, music and texts released under the cc license. The project is by Framasoft.net, a French-language platform founded by private persons, and run by moderators and the community, that is totally dedicated to free software. The Free Me DVD is the work of a single person whose aim it was to collect and distribute various Creative Commons works under the motto of "free culture". The project website has various links to more Creative Commons music, photos, books and other material.
The Creative Commons project was founded in 2001 and is funded by donations from private people and companies. "Creative Commons" replaces the "All rights reserved" clause with a "Some rights reserved" variant. Under the Creative Commons License, artists can allow other people to distribute and modify their works, or to combine them with their own work (share, reuse, remix). The project provides a number of license variants for this purpose.
Subscribe to our Linux Newsletters
Find Linux and Open Source Jobs
Subscribe to our ADMIN Newsletters
Support Our Work
Linux Magazine content is made possible with support from readers like you. Please consider contributing when you’ve found an article to be beneficial.
News
-
Juno Computers Launches Another Linux Laptop
If you're looking for a powerhouse laptop that runs Ubuntu, the Juno Computers Neptune 17 v6 should be on your radar.
-
ZorinOS 17.1 Released, Includes Improved Windows App Support
If you need or desire to run Windows applications on Linux, there's one distribution intent on making that easier for you and its new release further improves that feature.
-
Linux Market Share Surpasses 4% for the First Time
Look out Windows and macOS, Linux is on the rise and has even topped ChromeOS to become the fourth most widely used OS around the globe.
-
KDE’s Plasma 6 Officially Available
KDE’s Plasma 6.0 "Megarelease" has happened, and it's brimming with new features, polish, and performance.
-
Latest Version of Tails Unleashed
Tails 6.0 is based on Debian 12 and includes GNOME 43.
-
KDE Announces New Slimbook V with Plenty of Power and KDE’s Plasma 6
If you're a fan of KDE Plasma, you'll be thrilled to hear they've announced a new Slimbook with an AMD CPU and the latest version of KDE Plasma desktop.
-
Monthly Sponsorship Includes Early Access to elementary OS 8
If you want to get a glimpse of what's in the pipeline for elementary OS 8, just set up a monthly sponsorship to help fund its continued existence.
-
DebConf24 to be Held in South Korea
Busan will be the location of the latest DebConf running July 28 through August 4
-
Fedora Unleashes Atomic Desktops
Fedora has combined its solid distribution with rpm-ostree system to make it possible to deliver a new family of Fedora spins, called Fedora Atomic Desktops.
-
Bootloader Vulnerability Affects Nearly All Linux Distributions
The developers of shim have released a version to fix numerous security flaws, including one that could enable remote control execution of malicious code under certain circumstances.